If I may just put my Trekkie hat back on, there is increasing speculation among Star Trek fans that the next film – the fourth in the so-called Kelvin Timeline – might be an effort to restore the prime timeline. That is, knowing how displeased fans were with the reboot, execs at paramount may decide to restore the franchise to what I call ‘proper Star Trek’. I earlier came across this fan video discussing it. Closing the loop, clearing up the alternative timeline, would be the logical thing to do. I hope they are right; like many fans I’ve never liked the kelvin timeline because I felt it sort of deleted or overwrote the other star trek stuff. But if they restore the timelines, it would reset things to how they were, so to speak. It would also clear the way, not only for Discovery to be set in the prime timeline, but for possible cameos by the old stars. Who knows: characters like Picard could return. Thus it would seem the right thing for the studio executives to do.